Trial ended for lightroom with projects not exported. How to get them back?

So I had a trial with lightroom, but decided to go with aperture. I had several hundred photos which had been edited in lightroom that i never exported back out. The trial for lighroom is over. Is there anyway I can retrieve these photos with the edits?

Hmm -- unless Aperture has an "Import from Lightroom" function, not without a working copy of Lightroom. If you have a friend who has Lightroom you can copy the latest backup onto a portable hard drive and you could open it using your friend's app.

Adobe's policy with free trials is that with each new "dot release" (every three months) you can have another trial. So wait for 3.4 to be released, which I think should be at the end of March / beginning of April.

Edit: I just checked and 3.3 was released on 7 Dec. (and 3.3 RC on 25 Oct.) so 3.4 should be along before too long.

I'm fairly sure this doesn't work anymore but did years ago with PS. I'm pretty sure Adobe has fixed this oversight. It doesn't cost anything and only takes a sec. to try. Change your computers date back. If it works great, if not just remember to reset the date back to normal. Lightroom is a great investment for the price. Good luck.

Well, Adobe apps can read it, but most of the metadata is Adobe-only. Maybe an app like Aperture can pick up a few things (keywords?) -- I think I've heard of something like that, but no go on the editing metadata.

Qwerty, if you need files that will have your edits applied for the "outside world" you'll need to export the files to a tiff/psd/jpeg. Otherwise you'll need a long-term relationship with Lightroom, Photoshop, whatever!

Any RAW files are all on the computer, even if the LR trial period is over. At the very minimum, you only need to open the Aperture program and import existing files from your specified location.So postprocessing would need to be done over again with Aperture, but the camera-created files will not have been lost.

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